Centamin CEO on renewables and ESG plans A
frican gold miner Centamin made headlines last year when they announced the commissioning of the largest hybrid solar project at an off–grid mining operation at the Sukari mine in Egypt. Here CEO Martin Horgan provides Energy and Mines with an update on this project, future renewable deployments and their overall ESG strategy. Energy and Mines: How is the focus on climate change and ESG driving energy decisions for your operations? Martin Horgan: Climate-related risk is fundamentally challenging the way we generate power at Sukari and the use of fossil fuels. At Centamin we are constantly looking at ways of mitigating all carbon emissions. The planned solar PV plant will be the largest of its kind for an off-grid gold mining operation and will provide 36 MW DC during peak sun hours and is expected to deliver at
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